Know constituencies of UP Assembly polls 2017: KATRA

Uttar Pradesh will go to Assembly elections early in 2017. The state has an Assembly comprising 403 seats and a party/alliance has to win 202 seats to form the government.

In 2012, when the last state election was held in UP, the Samajwadi Party had won 224 seats to get a decisive majority. OneIndia will take one Assembly constituency a day and have a look at electoral information related to it: [Know constituencies of UP Assembly polls]

Constituency Name: KATRA

Constituency No. 131

District: Shahjahanpur

District Area: 4,575 sq km

District population: 3,006,538

District literacy: 61.61% (Male) 70.09% (Female)

2012 Assembly election result in Katra

Winner: Rajesh Yadav (SP)

Votes received: 51,025

Vote percentage: 27.51%

Nearest rival: Rajeev Kashyap (BSP)

Votes: 50,150

Percentage: 27.04%

Difference: 875

Margin: 0.47%

Total voters: 292,322

Turnout: 185,449 (63.44 %)

First election in Katra assembly constituency was held in 2012 after the "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008" was passed and the constituency was formed in 2008.